Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

Not to make everything a competition, but i am like a platinum mvp member of the clean plate club. my partner, on the other hand, is in constant jeopardy of having her jr. membership card rent asunder. Just shoddy work.

@danieldenvir.bsky.social “world-historic rizz” made me lol

West Michigan is staunchly in its feudal era.

Might make this a puzzle results only account

When I can’t sleep, I always return to my roots (reading Wendy Brown)

Might start writing a Grand Rapids newsletter to get myself back in the game.

The most lovely people I know, filled with vision and passion, are hesitant to build anything that gets them closer to bring that vision to reality

More than 10k in Grand Rapids today. First March I have been to in 10 years where we occupied a street. Coulda had a picnic out front of the police station.

Let’s go tiges

I recently stumbled on the pedagogical model of anti patterns (here are some common mistakes, here is what to do instead—and why) and i love it. It surfaces so much more of the normative structure and wisdom often missing in textbooks.

Believing in social capital again (have been at the local suburban grocery store Starbucks since 6:30)

It is deranged that we do not have sound barriers along any stretch of highway in grand rapids

becoming a cash only guy

interesting move taking houtondji and pyrka off at half. they were both firing hard in the first. the boys look good without either aussie, too. love seeing a deeper team after last year #fcsp

it is never because a good thing happened that i am navigating to @mikeduncan.bsky.social’s socials

Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.

The US Open is back

an incredible looking job opportunity in the Denver area denver.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CCD-denver-d...

A remarkable moment from an interview with Brad Lander on the Jewish Currents podcast: two ICE officers who arrested him are immigrant New Yorkers, one of whom was considering voting for him and Mamdani podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

european hotels: the a/c is fake and so is the gym

Alex Garland Critics, circa 2024: “Civil War never gives the audience any sense of how the government descended into open warfare. It’s unrealistic!” Historians, post-2025: “The shot heard ‘round the world was fired by masked ICE agents at six day laborers in a Home Depot parking lot.”

been thinking about this classic in the context of algorithmic crime and genocide. the increased breadth of our classificatory powers, without any human interruption, is a problem. sites.tufts.edu/models/files...

Hmm!

Every day i strive to look more like a basically handsome accountant, and every day my beautiful wife tries to make me look more gay

Dang, when she into you in a solipsistic kinda way

Confused over who's in the running to become the next pope? But you do have some knowledge of financial-crisis era central bankers? This is the thread for you!

@michiganimmigrant.bsky.social asks supporters to get municipal ids (presumably to dilute the number of undocumented people in the pool of id holders). i'll do it this week. please join me.

I have been helping a guy get housing recently outside of work, by which i mean flipping him a $20 here and there and helping him go through the rigmarole of filling out the fed section 8 packet incl gathering vital docs. We were able to cut some corners and get everything together in about…

ten year treasury yield this ten year treasury yield that you need to Yield the next ten years to Treasure our Lord Jesus

Looks like bottom of the ninth for the constitutional order

Very @alexnpress.bsky.social coded

Wanted to dig into whether folks truly see this moment for what it is - a rupture from any recent history & rapid descent to authoritarian rule - and how they feel about it. Many things you wanted to know about Americans' views but were afraid to ask, survey March 7-10 of 1,188 likely voters. 🧵

But clerks are critical to democracy. In Michigan, there are more than a thousand clerks who go through it all not just to run our elections but to make sure their township's, city's, county's needs are met. I wrote about why it can be so difficult to find clerks: www.votebeat.org/michigan/202...

Listen… If you got elders in your life who depend on that Social Security check and not much else? Best start figuring out now, how you are going to pool financial resources, move them to affordable housing etc

No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American *so far*.

Shutting it down tonight. Too many bad things, too little power.

Hello! I used my esoteric knowledge gleaned from my DC years to write about how Congress could EASILY defund DOGE: www.techpolicy.press/how-congress...

I went to the local brewery for the first time in a month. we started talking job stuff around the bar. half the bar was newly unemployed and largely not from technically skilled jobs. that is a bad sign friends.

Four FEMA officials were fired for not following illegal orders to withhold spending. The White House is saying of judicial decisions: "These unlawful injunctions are a continuation of the weaponization of justice against President Trump." These are not warning signs. This is happening now.

Lifted last night and came back unable to use vocabulary above a 5th grade level

A Wisconsin Head Start program was already forced to close. $ still isn't flowing since the illegal funding freeze. www.wpr.org/news/half-wi...

Physical security is 3/4ths of data security

1/ Here's my take on what's happening with DOGE. I've got fed experience through contracting with Health & Human Safety, Head Start, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and DOD. I get brought in when people need to get shit done. Other people here have way more experience than me.

NEW — DOGE is preparing to purge an unknown number of USAID accounts. Source in the dept. said Musk youth employee Gavin Kliger has been made administrator of all systems, bypassing usual clearance process. If an account is shut down, employee loses access to email, shared files, internal systems.

Does anyone have experience committing yaml files to @resist.bot for county or municipal admin?

I dont think @mikeduncan.bsky.social meant to be prescient necessarily, but listening to 11.10 Red Justice Red Freedom has some echoes to the events of the last week.

Thousands of datasets have disappeared from data.gov. Determining what's gone, why it's gone, and whether it moved elsewhere will to take time. Things are definitely being purged but archivists working hard to determine exactly what has happened to a given dataset www.404media.co/archivists-w...